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Six Secret Teachings (Complete Text, Full Annotation, and Full Translation of Chinese Classics Series) cover
Rating 4.5
Six Secret Teachings (Complete Text, Full Annotation, and Full Translation of Chinese Classics Series) Chen Xi Zhonghua Book Company · 2016 The Six Secret Teachings is an important text of pre-Qin military thought, traditionally attributed to Jiang Taigong (Lü Wang) but generally believed …
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Rating 4.1
Caigentan (Vegetable Roots Discourse) Hong Yingming / Sun Lin Zhonghua Book Company · 2022 Caigentan is a collection of aphoristic "clear-talk" vignettes written by the Ming-dynasty literatus Hong Yingming, probably completed during the Wanl…
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Rating 4.3
The Rites of Zhou (Complete Text, Full Annotation, Full Translation) 周公旦 / 徐正英 / 常佩雨 Zhonghua Book Company · 2014 The Rites of Zhou, originally titled The Offices of Zhou, The Classic of Zhou Offices, or The Rites of Zhou Offices, is a monograph among the Confucia…
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The Gongyang Commentary on the Spring and Autumn Annals 公羊高 / 黄铭 / 曾亦 Zhonghua Book Company · 2016 The Gongyang Commentary on the Spring and Autumn Annals is one of the Thirteen Confucian Classics and, together with the Zuo Commentary and the Gulian…
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Rating 4.5
Huangdi Neijing (Two Volumes) 姚春鹏 Zhonghua Book Company · 2022 The Huangdi Neijing, or Inner Canon of the Yellow Emperor, abbreviated as Neijing, is the earliest extant medical classic in China, honored as the "an…
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Rating 3.5
Bowu Zhi (Records of the Investigation of Things) Zhang Hua / 郑晓峰 Zhonghua Book Company · 2019 Bowu Zhi is an ancient notebook-style work of the strange compiled by Zhang Hua of the Western Jin, and one of the earliest extant Chinese compendia o…
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Records of Transmission and Practice Wang Shouren Zhonghua Book Company · 2021 Records of Transmission and Practice (Chuanxilu) is a compilation of Wang Shouren's (known as Yangming) discourses on learning and letters, first reco…
Laozi (Complete Text, Full Annotation, and Full Translation of Chinese Classics) cover
Rating 4.5
Laozi (Complete Text, Full Annotation, and Full Translation of Chinese Classics) Laozi / 汤漳平 / 王朝华 Zhonghua Book Company · 2014 Laozi, also known as the Daodejing or the Daode Zhenjing, runs to about five thousand characters in eighty-one chapters, mostly written in verse, and …
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Rating 4.5
The Four Books and Five Classics (Complete Edition with Full Annotation and Translation) Confucius, Zeng Shen, Zisi, Mencius / Chen Xiaofen, Xu Ruzong, Guo Dan, Fang Yong, Wang Shishun, Hu Pingsheng, Yang Tiancai, Wang Xiumei Zhonghua Book Company · 2019 "The Four Books and Five Classics" is the collective name for the "Four Books" and the "Five Classics" of the Chinese Confucian canon. The "Four Books…
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The Travel Diaries of Xu Xiake (Four Volumes) Xu Xiake / 朱惠荣整理 / Li Xinghe Zhonghua Book Company · 2015 The Travel Diaries of Xu Xiake is a diary-form geographical masterpiece left by the Ming dynasty traveler, geographer, and man of letters Xu Xiake (15…
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Collected Remembrances of a Floating Life (Three Volumes) Shen Fu / 冒襄 / 蒋坦 / 陈裴之 / 余十眉 China Bookstore Press · 2019 The three-volume Collected Remembrances of a Floating Life is an anthology of "remembrance-style" prose, gathering five classic works from the Ming an…
Selections of Refined Literature (Complete Text, Full Annotation, and Full Translation of Chinese Classics Series · 6 Volumes) cover
Rating 4.3
Selections of Refined Literature (Complete Text, Full Annotation, and Full Translation of Chinese Classics Series · 6 Volumes) Xiao Tong Zhonghua Book Company · 2019 Also known as the Zhaoming Selections of Refined Literature, this is the earliest extant and most influential anthology of poetry and prose in China, …
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Rating 4.4
Biographies of Immortals (Complete Annotated Translation of a Chinese Classic) Ge Hong / Xie Qingyun Zhonghua Book Company · 2017 Biographies of Immortals is a collection of tales of the strange compiled by Ge Hong of the Eastern Jin, in ten volumes. Through concrete biographies …
Zhenguan Zhengyao (Revised Edition, Chinese Classics Collection) cover
Zhenguan Zhengyao (Revised Edition, Chinese Classics Collection) Wu Jing / 骈宇骞 Zhonghua Book Company · 2016 Zhenguan Zhengyao is a political history compiled by the Tang dynasty historian Wu Jing, completed around the Tianbao era. In ten volumes and forty ch…
Yingzao Fashi (Complete Texts, Full Annotations, and Full Translations of Chinese Classics series) cover
Yingzao Fashi (Complete Texts, Full Annotations, and Full Translations of Chinese Classics series) 李诫 / 王贵祥 Zhonghua Book Company · 2023 Yingzao Fashi is an official architectural treatise compiled by Li Jie, director of the Palace Workshops of the Northern Song dynasty, by imperial ord…
The Chunqiu Guliang Zhuan (Complete Text, Full Annotation, Full Translation) cover
The Chunqiu Guliang Zhuan (Complete Text, Full Annotation, Full Translation) 徐正英 / Zou Hao Zhonghua Book Company · 2016 The Chunqiu Guliang Zhuan, together with the Chunqiu Zuo Zhuan and the Chunqiu Gongyang Zhuan, is known as one of the "Three Commentaries on the Sprin…
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The Family Letters of Zeng Guofan (3 Volumes) Zeng Guofan / 檀作文 Zhonghua Book Company · 2017 This book is suitable for readers interested in late Qing history and Zeng Guofan's life who want to read primary-source letter materials, general rea…
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Huangdi Neijing 姚春鹏 Zhonghua Book Company · 2022 Huangdi Neijing, abbreviated as Neijing, is the earliest extant medical classic in China. It consists of two parts, Suwen and Lingshu, each in 18 volu…
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Rating 4.5
Youyang Zazu (Complete Text, Annotated and Translated) Duan Chengshi / 张仲裁 Zhonghua Book Company · 2017 Youyang Zazu is a collection of biji xiaoshuo (miscellaneous notes and tales) by the late Tang literatus Duan Chengshi, comprising twenty juan in the …
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A New Account of Tales of the World Liu Yiqing / 刘孝标 Zhonghua Book Company · 2011 One book captures the elegance of an entire age. The figures of Wei and Jin prized "transcending the ethics of fame and following nature"; they engage…